ONT Re: De In Esse Predication
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DEIP. Note 4
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| I have maintained since 1867 that there is but one primary and fundamental
| logical relation, that of illation, expressed by 'ergo'. A proposition,
| for me, is but an argumentation divested of the assertoriness of its
| premiss and conclusion. This makes every proposition a conditional
| proposition at bottom. In like manner a "term", or class-name, is
| for me nothing but a proposition with its indices or subjects left
| blank, or indefinite. The common noun happens to have a very
| distinctive character in the Indo-European languages. In most
| other tongues it is not sharply discriminated from a verb or
| participle. "Man", if it can be said to mean anything by
| itself, means "what I am thinking of is a man". This
| doctrine, which is in harmony with the above theory
| of signs, gives a great unity to logic.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 3.440,
|"The Regenerated Logic", 'Monist', vol. 7,
| pp. 19-40, 1896.
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